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Commit 1871a924 authored by Christopher Arndt's avatar Christopher Arndt Committed by Damien George
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py/mkenv.mk: Use $(PYTHON) consistently when calling Python tools.

Rationale:

* Calling Python build tool scripts from makefiles should be done
  consistently using `python </path/to/script>`, instead of relying on the
  correct she-bang line in the script [1] and the executable bit on the
  script being set. This is more platform-independent.
* The name/path of the Python executable should always be used via the
  makefile variable `PYTHON` set in `py/mkenv.mk`. This way it can be
  easily overwritten by the user with `make PYTHON=/path/to/my/python`.
* The Python executable name should be part of the value of the makefile
  variable, which stands for the build tool command (e.g. `MAKE_FROZEN` and
  `MPY_TOOL`), not part of the command line where it is used. If a Python
  tool is substituted by another (non-python) program, no change to the
  Makefiles is necessary, except in `py/mkenv.mk`.
* This also solves #3369 and #1616.

[1] There are systems, where even the assumption that `/usr/bin/env` always
exists, doesn't hold true, for example on Android (where otherwise the unix
port compiles perfectly well).
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